Topic: Workplace Sexual Harassment
Country: Indonesia
Delegate Name: Jackson Montuoro
School: Forest Hills Central High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Indonesia position papers GLIMUN 2018 committees
The idea that individual countries should have differing views on a topic such as this is ludicrous; sexual harassment in the workplace is an offence to both the respect of women in the workplace and the ideals of an equal society. We believe it is wrong for a woman’s income to be threatened if she were to combat her superior or colleague for her right to be undisturbed, which is why Indonesia supports the policies defined in the International Labor Organization’s “Sexual harassment at workplace” subclause. Indonesia, while economically growing and progressing, is plagued by generations of an oppressively patriarchal social structure. The government of Indonesia would like to see a transformation from this existing societal infrastructure, but is apprehensive to make harsh or strict punishments in the name of personal liberties and the gradients of wrongdoing integral to this sort of problem. Indonesia has officially and politically adopted the policies laid out by the International Labor Organization (ILO), and while female public workers are less subject to male harassment than their private industry counterparts, problems outside of the government are much a harder to crack down on. Indonesia has seen the recent rise of female support groups and social clubs made to combat such issues, but the government has not given them direct support and assistance. In this committee, Indonesia would like to learn more from other nations, especially western ones. Indonesia does not have any plans to introduce a working paper to directly combat this issue without the direct support of many other nations which have established these goals. This is because we do not believe we have the current tools or general public support to efficiently enforce these rules and would like the help from other nations to legitimize our plans. With support and information from countries more successful in this regard, Indonesia believes it can then best address this issue.
